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THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL. Dedication: May 20, 1922 Sculptor: Daniel Chester French Architect: Henry Bacon Lori A. Frieberg IN 609 - Final Presentation August 12, 1999. AESTHETIC ANALYSIS. Line Shape Form Space Texture Value Color. LINE. Horizontal Vertical Thick Heavy. SHAPE.
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THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL • Dedication: May 20, 1922 • Sculptor: Daniel Chester French • Architect: Henry Bacon • Lori A. Frieberg • IN 609 - Final Presentation • August 12, 1999
AESTHETIC ANALYSIS • Line • Shape • Form • Space • Texture • Value • Color
LINE • Horizontal • Vertical • Thick • Heavy
SHAPE • Hard-Edged • Rectangles • Cylinders • Squares • Angular
FORM • Mechanical • Regular • Solid • Strong • Balanced • Grand
SPACE • Foreground • Solid • Balanced • Vertical • Background • Solid • Grand
TEXTURE • Smooth • Clean • Hard • Rough • Shiny
VALUE • High contrast • Color • Lines • Vertical pattern • Top to bottom • Drawn to center
COLOR • Soft • Cool • Neutral • Whites • Grays • Browns
HISTORICAL CONTEXT • 1860 Abraham Lincoln elected president. • 1863 January - Emancipation Proclamation November - Gettysburg Address • 1865 March - Second Inaugural Address April - Lincoln’s assassination • 1911 Lincoln Memorial established. • 1915 Groundbreaking ceremony held. • 1922 Lincoln Memorial Dedication.
BIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT • ARCHITECT: • Henry Bacon • Studied in Europe. • Admired the temples of ancient Greece. • Submitted drawings to the Memorial Commission in 1912. • Final approval given in 1913.
BIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT • SCULPTOR: • Daniel Chester French • Self-taught artist. • Sculpted people and animals out of clay as a child. • Previously worked with Bacon on the Chicago World’s Fair.
CRITICAL INTERPRETATION • Heavy • Hard-Edged • Strong • Solid • Rough • Focused • Neutral
CRITICAL INTERPRETATION • Others: • Site for many Civil Rights gatherings.
EDUCATIONAL INTERPRETATION • Standards of Learning: • History and Social Science: 2.4, 2.9 • Mathematics: 2.15, 2.18, 2.20 • Science: 2.1, 2.6, 2.7 • English: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11 • Other: • THE ARTS: Music, Dance, Theatre, Visual